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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

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Every woman is wrong until she cries.

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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.

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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

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Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

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Music is the perfect type of art.

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I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

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To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

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Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

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Only good questions deserve good answers.

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A gentleman never offends unintentionally

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Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance

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Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.

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Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

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Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

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Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

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